One of the most efficient approaches to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that must not be able to open it. There are many reasons to do this. For instance, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your site, or you can restrict the access for an entire country. You can also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left in your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In each of these cases, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any questionable IP address, to be on the safe side. Thus, you shall also prevent the prospect of your web server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you have a hosting account with us and you want to block one or several IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a very simple interface, you'll be able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform this is to log inside to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You simply won't have to do anything complicated if you want to block an entire network - you will just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your sites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses sooner or later, you'll be able to leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just a couple of clicks, you'll be able to block individual IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you shall need to do is choose any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the website, and then type in the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you only have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address based on the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses that you have restricted will be listed in the same exact section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with a click whenever you want.